🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm getting really sick of this CD only shit.  Is this supposed to
suppress piracy or something?  Software companies think that coming
out with games on CD-ROM only will increase their sales, because
instead of John Doe #1 buying the game and giving a copy to John Doe
#2 so they can play over the modem, they figure both John Doe #1 and
John Doe #2 will go out and buy one copy each.

Bull shit.

John Doe #1 (that's me in this scenario)  refuses to buy any more CD
only games unless they can be installed and run without the CD in the
drive, because they are a pain in the ass.  What's more, my buddy (we
will call him John Doe #2) is a 30 year old non-technoid who would not
plunk down $50 on a computer game if his life depended on it, and the
only games he ever plays are those I give him copies of.
And since I can't give him copies of copy protected CD games, then I
don't have anyone to play with over the modem, and that means that I
am not going to buy the fucking game at all.

So instead of selling two copies, the software company just sold minus
one copy.

Also, I have 3 PCs.  I like to be able to install whatever software I
own on any one of my 3 PCs, incase I want to have friends over for
network play.  Only one of my systems has a CD-ROM, so CDs sort of
cramp my style.  Yeah I know that software companies like to believe
that guys like me go out and buy one copy of Doom or Heretic for each
machine that it will be run on, but that's not the reality or even
reasonable to expect of a typical gamer.  I will buy only ONE copy of
a game and I will install it on any machine that I use, including my
PC at work  (and if my boss happens to be reading this, all I can say
is don't even think about firing me because you need me to disengage
that trojan horse program I wrote and installed on the primary server
down in the IT building once a week.  If you fire me it will act like
a time bomb, destroying all company data within 10 days of my
departure)..  (heh heh..... Ok so I am kidding about the Trojan Horse
thing... it sounded good though...)

Back to my bitching!!!!

The whole appeal of Civnet is that it's multiplayer..  If I can't play
it on my network here at home then I'm not interested.

Spectrum Holobyte, I can sum it up in two words..   NO SALE.